Top Putin Aide Taunts NATO After Brussels Attack
March 22, 2016
Damien Sharkov
The head of Russia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Alexey Pushkov, has taunted NATO over Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, accusing the alliance of neglecting defence in its own backyard to confront Russia instead.
NATO, whose head offices are in the Belgian capital, is undergoing its largest reinforcement in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Russia has repeatedly objected to NATO’s decision to send more deployments to former Communist allies and has even warned that placing U.S. aircraft defences in Poland and Romania would make the countries “targets” for Russian forces.
Two blasts in Brussels’ Zaventem Airport and one in the city’s metro killed at least 26 people on Tuesday morning. Transport in the Belgian capital is currently on lockdown, with reports that suicide bombers caused the explosions.
In the wake of the explosions, Pushkov, who is a key member of Putin’s United Russia party, took a swipe at NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on his Twitter account. The Russian official accused the NATO chief of allowing “people to blow themselves up from right under his nose” while NATO was “combatting the imaginary Russian threat.”
An hour later Pushkov returned to Twitter to express his condolences to the families of the victims and once again underlined that “Europe should realize where this evil threat is coming from and unite forces with Russia.”
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